#barter
Christian Barter goes up to the counter on a path he’s built himself, out of stones carried on the backs of his compatriots, on a mountain whose name is new but whose peak looms large, overlooking the wild Atlantic ocean, with only Hannaford and the sea lions far below him. He orders a black coffee, pours it into his thermos, and gets back to work.
In Cinderella, the Fairy Godmother turns a normal pumpkin into a glistening carriage. In 2005, Kyle MacDonald turned a single red paperclip into a house.Through a chain of barters and trades, he went from paperclip to pen to generator to snowmobile, to recording contract, movie role, and finally, a house, almost a full year later. The whole list of trades is available here, but I couldn’t blame you if you still look around for that fairy magic.
(Image credit to Wikipedia.)
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